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she had not expected this.

chickadee was quiet before her. kivaluk spoke definitively.

kukutux felt a brief sorrow, a brief insult. maia had rejected her overtures of allyship between moonglow and brecheliant. now her daughter returned, and with her firsthunter.

brecheliant would gain much in this.

but she chided herself. a daughter returned to her mother. was this not the way she had always felt?

"very well, my son." the words were soft in arrival. "you are not married yet," and her emerald gaze swept between them. "will you seek this now? or later?" her eyes were on chickadee now; a smile touched her. "your mother will be happy to have you home."

she had many grandchildren around her. perhaps healing might come when maia saw she did not begrudge the same for the caldera woman.